1. Describe briefly (two sentences max.) any situation or event you thought funny or disturbing in a movie or serial TV show you've seen recently (a TV series, that is, with actors, not a talk show, news show, etc.).
 
 
 
 

2. Introduce any quotation from the poem about Sir Gawain (our next reading).
 
 
 
 
 

3. Introduce the following quote from the poem about Beowulf: "Let us go to him, / help our leader through the hot flame / and dread of the fire" (2648-50).
 
 
 
 
 

4. Introduce the following passage from the poem about Beowulf: "urging him to drink deep and enjoy it / because he was dear to them" (617-18).
 
 
 
 
 

5. Underline or put in quote marks the following titles:

a. The Simpsons [TV show]
b. I Could Not Stop for Death [poem]
c. Trifles
d. Ms. Magazine
e. Macbeth
f. Are There Traditional Families Still? [essay]
g. Chipper Jones Goes Yard [an article], from USA Today
h. Pygmalion [play]
i. The Scarlet Letter
j. Gone With the Wind [the movie]

Rewrite #'s 6-8, punctuating as needed (do not remove any of the quotation marks):
6) The closest Mom comes to swearing is saying "shoot" "darn" "Jiminey" or "Jumping Jehoshaphat"
 
 
 
 
 

7) Little Ryan's favorite question is "Why"
 
 
 
 
 

8) Did George Bush really say "No freakin' way"

9. Introduce and quote any passage from the editors' introduction to the poem about Gawain (pp. 119-20), using ellipsis to indicate that you have left out words from within a single sentence. Rather than naming the author of the passage directly, you may call the author "the Norton editor" or "the editors."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

10. Introduce and quote any passage from the editors' introduction to the poem about Gawain (pp. 119-20), using ellipsis to indicate that you have left out an entire sentence or more. Rather than naming the author of the passage directly, you may call the author "the Norton editor" or "the editors."